I don't actually need it, I was just wandering with new ideas before vacation... :-)
Using a Web Browser as UI for a GIS mobile is probably a good idea because projects like OpenLayers may be available for mobile platform, sooner or later. So if you want to work with local data, with no network connection, you just need a local WMS server running on the mobile device. This is another case where it would be great to have a server version of OpenJump. What is really needed is a light Java styled renderer for JTS. But it will need to look at attributes also, so a Feature model must be used instead of plain JTS geometries. I looked, very briefly, inside the OJ rendering code, but it seems to be tied to the LayerViewPanel class, and so to the Swing UI, while a server renderer should be not. I looked, again very briefly, inside GeoTools rendering code and it doesn't seem to be tied to the UI, but instead it is tied to a _lot_ of other classes, and to the GeoTools Feature model, so it seems a little on the heavy side... Does anyone know of other good renderers??? Or is it just a plain bad idea to have a map server running on mobile??? Bye Paolo > I agree with the assessment below. I would suggest considering a > cut-down interface based on the web browser using modern standards > (SVG, Gears etc). Avoid non-standards like Flash or Silverlight. The > current Android release does not support SVG well, but I'm sure that > will be fixed soon. Going the web route means you have almost all > modern smart phones covered. Most of them are based on Webkit, so > portability across the various platforms should be achievable. Given > that any effort do that will be take 6months - 1 year, keep in mind > that hardware and software is advancing rapidly, so target the > platform as it will be in 2011. > > As a byproduct you will also have a web interface that will work with > desktops, internet tablets, game consoles etc also. > > Joe. > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Stefan Steiniger<sst...@geo.uzh.ch> wrote: >> not that I know off. >> However, we once figured that using OJ on a mobile devise with a small >> screen would require to make a complete new gui (just due to sizes of >> GUI elements) >> >> However, if you are in need for a free mobile GIS I would recommend to >> have a look on gvSIG's Mobile pilot. >> >> stefan >> >> Paolo Rizzi wrote: >>> Just a pre-vacation thought, >>> did anyone tried or at least considered a port of OpenJump on Android??? >>> Or maybe it's not a good idea at all to have a "fat" GIS client on a >>> mobile platform doing the rendering client-side, instead of downloading >>> and displaying pre-cooked image tiles from a server...?!? >>> >>> Bye >>> Paolo Rizzi >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day >>> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus >>> on >>> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >>> Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Jump-pilot-devel mailing list >>> Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel >>> >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day >> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on >> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >> Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >> _______________________________________________ >> Jump-pilot-devel mailing list >> Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
